This is FC4. I don't think /sbin/hwclock is doing anything useful on my system. Anyone else seeing this? [root@surrey ~]# hwclock --show [root@surrey ~]# [root@surrey ~]# strace -s50 hwclock --show execve("/sbin/hwclock", ["hwclock", "--show"], [/* 25 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0x8f4b000 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f0e000 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=107489, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 107489, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7ef3000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\n\37[\0004\0\0\0\4\260\26\0\0\0\0\0004\0 \0"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1489572, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(0x59d000, 1219548, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x59d000 old_mmap(0x6c1000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x124000) = 0x6c1000 old_mmap(0x6c5000, 7132, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x6c5000 close(3) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7ef2000 set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb7ef26c0, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0 mprotect(0x6c1000, 8192, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x599000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0xb7ef3000, 107489) = 0 gettimeofday({1122614971, 844952}, NULL) = 0 socket(PF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, 9) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) write(2, "Error - unable to connect to audit system\n", 42) = 42 exit_group(77) = ? [root@surrey ~]# [root@surrey ~]# tail -3 /var/log/audit/audit.log type=AVC msg=audit(1122615217.619:4364333): avc: denied { create } for pid=7432 comm="hwclock" scontext=root:system_r:hwclock_t tcontext=root:system_r:hwclock_t tclass=netlink_audit_socket type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1122615217.619:4364333): arch=40000003 syscall=102 success=no exit=-13 a0=1 a1=bfb5cbc0 a2=80542e0 a3=599ca0 items=0 pid=7432 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 comm="hwclock" exe="/sbin/hwclock" type=SOCKETCALL msg=audit(1122615217.619:4364333): nargs=3 a0=10 a1=3 a2=9 [root@surrey ~]# service auditd status auditd (pid 1565) is running... [root@surrey ~]# -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia norm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html